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I still feel like it will be a thing - we have so much cash out there folks will be able to massively overpay for 1-year rentals. They wont be able to lock them up long term...but I think it's still going to happen

I still feel like it will be a thing - we have so much cash out there folks will be able to massively overpay for 1-year rentals. They wont be able to lock them up long term...but I think it's still going to happen

It hasn't happened en masse in the 8-10 offseasons in the other leagues I am in that have done it. We have only seen big one year contract the old players. And really, that is much better than the current system of people like me figuring out a way to structure a contract in a goofy manner that gets around the three-year rule.

One thing to keep in mind if we do this is that the tag change really needs one *full* offseason's notice, but the no-three-year rule can be enacted in the offseason prior. Because we're already into the 2050 offseason, we are making cap decisions at this point assuming that we'll be able to tag players next year. For example, my OG Austin Lehr is in the final year of his rookie contract and is asking for an extension that would cost me around $10M more this season than what I'm paying him. Because the tag is an option here, my plan is to use that $10M elsewhere this year and tag him next year. I'm sure there are others making similar decisions now.

In other words, get rid of the FA rules for this FA, but keep the tag for 2051? If we do that I think we need to do it with the stipulation that you can only use the tag on players currently on your roster.

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Oh. I was assuming that since we are already in FA (people have exported) we would have to keep the three-year rule this offseason. (I know I would have done some renegs differently if I thought we could change it this year.) But yeah, if you're going to change midstream, I guess that would work.

I am fine with the changes. Truthfully, I'm not convinced we need to axe the franchise tag (and yes, I know that flies in the face of my comments above). No matter what, I think it will improve on the current system.